Previously, Wang Shen finally figured out the situation of Li Yu's old camp, which was fifty miles away from the cavalry camp. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

On the night march, although the war horses could see at night, and although the road had already been surveyed, it still took a long time to reach the ground.

has already left Hongze Lake, and in the distance is Li Yu's old camp.

Li Yu must also be inside, which can be known from the word "Li" embroidered on the big flag on the gate.

There is a brick kiln in the open space between the cavalry battalion and Li Yu's old camp, like a small hill raised in the flat land.

Wang Shen and Chen Lanruo stood on the top of the brick kiln to observe the situation of Li Yu's thief army.

To be honest, Wang Shen is very contemptuous of Li Yu. The battle in Pingyuan Town really opened his eyes, the tactical literacy of the thief army was extremely low, and they turned a good battle into a land and water dojo, which was a duan gong practice, and a Taoist chanting scriptures, which was ridiculous to the extreme.

More than 10,000 people, without any cooperation, just rushed up, and scattered in a hurry at the slightest death or injury.

As far as the current brick kiln is concerned, it is the only commanding height in this wilderness, and you can see the surrounding area for dozens of miles from it, why do you have to put a few sentinels?

In fact, this is also the characteristic of the peasant army in this era, and they have not been able to learn the art of war from the war, and Wang Shen does not plan to give him this opportunity.

Today's weather is very bad, and the clouds overhead are getting darker and darker. The wind was stronger, and it was so cold that people shivered, and no one knew when the rain would fall.

In front of me is an open land, overgrown with yellow grass, which should have been farmland in the past, and you can vaguely see the criss-crossing ridges. In addition, there are many rivers that meander around the land and flow into the large lakes. One of them is the widest, like a tributary of Surabaya. The geographical differences between ancient and modern times are very large, and Wang Shen can't figure it out. It's just that after so long of drought, the river has also dried up, revealing only the white pebbles and trickles of flowers on the riverbed.

The most important thing for the army to camp is to find an available water source, so the main force of Li Yu's army is stationed by this river.

Li Yujun's army looks very scattered, and there is no place to talk about it. It was nothing more than a group of people getting together, pitching tents, erecting shacks, and then fenced them all over. Unlike Li Chengjun, after the army was encamped, it was divided into four major parts, east, west, north and south, and even separated ditches and firebreaks were dug between each battalion, and horses were also placed on the roads, and guards patrolled back and forth.

It is also because of this that Li Yujun's stall in front of him is spread out very large, and the tents and shacks are spread out evenly, boundless, and it looks as if there are thousands of patches on the ground.

In the camp, the group of ragged soldiers under Li Yu were jumping in a mess, and there was no military discipline at all.

Chen Lanruo: "How?" ”

"Are you asking me?"

"Nonsense." The female general looked impatient.

Wang Shen sighed: "There are at least 20,000 horses, a lot!" I'm just surprised that Li Yu has survived by relying on this group of garbage troops until now, and even fought with the Huaixi Army. ”

Chen Lanruo sneered: "This shows that the Huaixi Army is also very rotten, and the Heavenly King doesn't know what to think, he actually made a truce with Liu Guangshi, and he was recruited to listen to his moderation." ”

Wang Shen knew that Chen Lanruo was extremely angry about accepting Zhao'an, and he didn't want to express his opinion on this matter, so he looked up and said, "Looking at the weather, I'm afraid it's another heavy rain, originally, after such a long drought, the weather is dry and dry, and Li Yu's old camp is also built in a mess." Just put a fire on it and let him get out of control. Now, this method of fire attack cannot be used. ”

As he spoke, a raindrop fell and hit him in the face, but it was very cold.

Wang Shen said: "Sure enough, it fell, it's so dangerous." If we arrive here one day later, the lake will rise and everyone will have to feed the fish. ”

As he spoke, the rain gradually became heavier, and although it was not as heavy as the torrential rain in Plains Town that day, it was flowing into the sky into boundless silver threads.

The low-ranking head looked at the three hundred cavalry under the brick kiln, and everyone was soaked, and the armor on their faces was covered with mud. Although their expressions were strong, their eyebrows were tired.

Wang Shen sighed: "I walked for two days and two nights, it was all dry food, I didn't eat seriously, and the soldiers were all in hard work, this battle is ...... in my opinion."

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Lanruo sneered impatiently: "With so much nonsense, you can't use fire, just fight hard." ”

She raised her voice and shouted to the soldiers below: "Everyone listen, let's get to the ground, Li Yu is in front." Straight lady thief, this journey has been really hard, and now I finally don't have to suffer this hardship. ”

Everyone was full of excitement, and they let out a low roar, trying not to let themselves cheer.

Chen Lanruo waved the horse lance in his hand: "But you also saw it this day, it's raining, and it can't stop for a while." Maybe in a week or two the water in this river will come down, that is to say, the lake will definitely rise, and we have no way out. The enemy has 20,000 and we have 300, and this battle can only be rushed, and it will be hard. ”

When everyone calmed down, she continued: "In ancient times, the overlord of Chu broke the cauldron and sunk the boat, and today we will also fight against the water, either life or death." But rest assured, I will always be at the forefront. Our Western Army—"

"Mighty!"

All of them held their horses aloft and let out an earth-shattering roar.

"Follow me!" Chen Lanruo rushed down the brick kiln with a horse's belly, and slowly walked towards the enemy camp in front of him, where he couldn't see the edge at a glance, as if he was strolling leisurely.

Wang Shen also rushed down.

Behind him, the three hundred cavalry stopped cheering, and a group followed, gradually forming rows of sparse linear formations, advancing forward like combs.

The horse's hooves are crisp and soft, with a melodious melody.

Dawn is the time when people are the most lazy, and occasionally someone comes out of the shed rubbing their eyes and yawning, and someone goes to the river to fetch water. Cooking smoke rises one after another, connecting the heavens and the earth in the wet air.

There were occasionally a few neighs of cattle, and the entire Li Yu camp was silent.

However, this peace was soon shattered by the cavalry battalion.

There were more than a dozen guards chatting at the gate of Li Yu's old camp, and suddenly, the sound of neat horses' hooves made them raise their heads at the same time.

I saw a large area of cavalry wrapped in metal suddenly appear in the wilderness to the east.

They slowly pushed forward at first, and gradually, the horses began to trot.

Then, the rider who rushed to the head suddenly pointed the lance in his hand to the sky.

With a bang, all the horses turned to their maximum speed at the same time.

The cavalry in the rear moved forward in rows, forming a large and sturdy formation behind the enemy general.

The sound of horses' hooves shook the sky and turned the earth into a vegetable garden, and the mud and waves of the earth, which had become a vegetable garden, made them look like demons who had suddenly emerged from the ground.

The dozen or so guards were stunned for a moment, and before they could wake up, they were already overwhelmed by the sharp lances of the cavalry that pounced in front of them.

At this moment, Wang Shen really saw Chen Lanruo's power. She let out a long whistle and rushed into the gate first, waving the lance in her hand like a whip, and kept pulling it out. With each stroke, the sharp blade brought up a clump of flesh.

Behind her were more lances, which also swept forward.

These lances are the sharpest weapons in the cold weapon war, and when they are made, they need to be cut into small wooden strips, painted, wrapped in silk linen, and painted. Then soak in water for a period of time, then dry in the shade, continue to wrap in wooden strips, paint, soak in water, and so on for three years.

Once made, the lance is two meters and two feet long, and it is extremely flexible. Just because it was thought that it was too difficult to make and consumed a lot of materials and labor, it was gradually eliminated by the battlefield after the Northern Song Dynasty.

The cavalry of the Western Army was probably the last heavy cavalry in history to be heavily equipped with horse lances, right?

Along with it, there was a panicked army of thieves who were cut to the ground by the lance, and before they even had time to groan, they were trampled into meat sauce by the crazy horses' hooves.

One tent after another was overturned by a horse lance, and the people inside could not get out at all, so they were trampled to death. Red blood seeped out of the canvas and turned black and red sauce.

Even if someone escapes by luck, they just turn around and run away.

Rushing into it for about 100 meters in one go, although it was not far away, the entire Li Yu old camp had been completely disrupted by the cavalry.

Since Wang Shen traveled to the Ming Dynasty, he has no memory of how many people he has killed. Last night, he took the lives of five people in one go, and the whole person was numb. In such a field of life and death, mercy is the coldness of oneself to one's comrades.

If you want to live, you have to kill, kill all the way, and kill a sky.

The lance is a weapon that requires a lot of physical fitness and skills, and it can't be learned in a short time. At this moment, Wang Shen was holding a simple knife in his hand, lying across the horse, and only tried his best to drive the war horse to rush forward.

Without him making any moves, the war horse could cut off the heads of his enemies with a sharp blade.

On his side, blood spurted up, and a black human head leaped into the air.

He didn't know how much blood had splashed on his body, and the blood began to flow down the armor at first, and gradually condensed into a tofu-like shape.

The injuries on his body are still painful, and in the bloody battle last night, he was stabbed at least three times, but fortunately, he was protected by armor, and only a little skin was broken, and there was no danger. In addition to the injury to his lungs, his throat and eyes couldn't stop itching, and he couldn't cough out when he wanted to.

Wang Shen stabilized the knife shaft and figure, and shouted with all his strength: "We are the athletes under the command of Li Tianwang, and we will hang the people for the crime by the will of the Great Song Dynasty officials, and only take Li Yu, and never ask!" ”

The other cavalry also shouted in unison: "Only take Li Yu, and never ask!" ”

This shout was like spring thunder in the flat ground, and even suppressed the drums in the enemy camp.

After the previous cavalry battalion broke through the enemy camp, the thief army was naturally in chaos. However, the camp of Li Yujin's army occupies an extremely wide area and has many people, and there are bursts of drums in the places that have not been affected, and it is the general of the thief army who is recruiting troops, and rushing one after another dense soldiers like Huazi to this side and throw them into the battlefield.

In the historical materials, when later generations mention the Northern Song Dynasty, the first impression is that it was a prosperous era that was peaceful and rich, and even the old soldiers who defended the city wore silk shoes. But in fact, due to the limitation of productive forces, coupled with the large increase in population in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, the phenomenon of land annexation was serious, and the people's lives were extremely difficult, and social contradictions were great.

In the Northern Song Dynasty, peasant uprisings occurred one after another, and every year was peaceful. Among them, the largest one was the rebellion of Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun, and then Fang La conquered several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River. In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were Yang Qi and Zhong Xiang.

To deal with the peasant uprising, in addition to sending troops to conscript, the most common means used by the Song Dynasty was Zhao'an. Recruit the rogues and peasant armies into the officers, make them people in the system, and eat the emperor's grain and hold the iron rice bowl.

In the late Northern Song Dynasty, the official army swelled to an astronomical amount, making the state finances unbearable.

Because of this tradition, in this era, it has become a tradition for the peasant army to accept Zhao'an, rebel, and then accept Zhao'an, which is like a commonplace.

After hearing the shout of "Only that Li Yu, don't ask", everyone's footsteps were obviously hesitant.